Calum Colvin (1961 – )

Calum Colvin is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work combines photography, painting and installation, often exploring issues of Scottish identity and culture through the history of art. He is currently Professor of Fine Art Photography and Programme Director, Art & Media at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, where he studied sculpture between 1979 and 1983. Colvin continued his studies at the Royal College of Art, London, where he was awarded an MA in photography.

The artist’s style often involves assemblages of objects upon which he paints designs so that when seen from particular viewpoints, they form flat images in a trompe-l’oeil or trick of the eye style. Colvin then takes photographs of the scene, preserving the illusion for exhibition. These photographs are often brightly coloured and inspired by the Cibachrome colour process commonly used in commercial photography.

In 2001 he was a winner of one of the first Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Awards from which he created the exhibition for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery ‘Ossian, Fragments of Ancient Poetry’. He was awarded an OBE in the same year.

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